[ML-General] Google Fiber coming to Huntsville

[Hunter Fuller]

> Dark fiver is also private fiber too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_fibre

Not necessarily - it is possible to lease a fiber cable and only use a
few pairs of it.

But we're really talking about two different things. Huntsville
already has fiber all over the place, even in your neighborhood (yes,
you reading this, probably). That's what they are leasing to Google.
Some of this is Huntsville City fiber, some of it's from service
providers (especially Level3). Once Google uses this existing fiber to
get to our neighborhoods, they'll be installing new fiber to our
homes. It's a totally different use case for fiber - usually only one
strand to each home, and using a passive optical network.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_optical_network
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Hunter Fuller




On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 11:00 PM, WebDawg <webdawg at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 4:02 PM, Michael Carroll
> <carroll.michael at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The AL.com article seems to indicate that the Google portion of the rollout
>> is all
>> Huntsville.(http://www.al.com/news/huntsville/index.ssf/2016/02/google_fiber_is_bringing_its_u.html):
>>
>> The utility, which serves all of Madison County, will run fiber into the
>> county – at first to substations and other infrastructure – raising the
>> possibility of providers bringing gigabit service to Madison and rural
>> areas, too.
>>
>> "But the work we're doing to lease the dark fiber to (Google) is just within
>> the city limits of Huntsville," Stowe said. Dark fiber is fiber-optic cable
>> before data is moving through it.
>
> Dark fiver is also private fiber too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_fibre
>
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